Possibly the angle of the bike on the stand or the rubbish strip lights in the shed but I think they are still very usable, if not I have plenty of spare rings to swap out.
All geared up and rings seem fine to me, I guess the first proper ride will tell.
I can’t setup the rear brake as yet as I am waiting for a delivery from eBay, couldn’t find any brake cable sheathing in clear other than from China with a 30 day plus delivery time to found some Teflon tubing with 2mm inner and 3mm outer diameters sold for the 3D printing industry. Bought 5 meters of it so hope it works well
I’ll sort the front brake though later today and strip down the chosen pedals. I had been after a nice set of XT’s for my Marin build but couldn’t find anything for less than stupid money and still not in great order, these DX’s turned up and although they need some love I could see they had potential. This morning I found some XT’s in great order for a still silly £50 but much better than anything else I’d seen so the DX’s will now be rebuilt for the AA.